Rabelais Inc.

de Pomiane, Edouard

Recettes de Grande Cuisine, par le Gastronome Dr. de Pomiane.

N.p. Liebig; Maron-Esperonnier, Imp. [circa 1950s]. Small, accordion fold booklet (13.5 x 11 cm.), [8] pages. Text in Italian. Promotional booklet for the Liebig company's various bottled sauces, including Sauce Madere, Sauce Perigueux, Sauce Chasseur, Sauce Americaine, and Sauce Italienne. The booklet includes twenty-six recipes, attributed here to the famous medical doctor and gastronome Edouard de Pomiane, pseudonym of Édouard Pozerski. The little booklet is printed by the lithographers, Maron-Esperonnier.....

Price: $50.00

[First Congregational Church (Berkeley, Calif.); Priscilla Club; Mrs. J.F. Furtado (edited by)]

The Priscilla Cook Book. Published by the Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. The proceeds to be contributed to the fund for the new church building.

[Berkeley, California: James J. Gillick & Co., Publishers, 1923]. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), [iv], 240 pages. Various tables at end. Blank leaves at end of each section (not used). Evident FIRST EDITION. The Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley had been founded in April of 1921, by our editor, Mrs. Joseph F. Furtado. A notice to that effect, with a list of officers appears on page.....

Price: $350.00

Kempner, Nan

R.S.V.P. Menus for Entertaining from People who Really Know How.

New York: Clarkson Potter, Publishers, 2000. Quarto, 212 pages. First edition. An entertaining cookbook from one of New York society's truly great hosts. Includes recipes and ideas from friends of the author, a parade of A-list names from around the world. The settings are fitting of the food, a boar hunt in the Loire Valley, a former diplomat's Manhattan apartment, a magnificent ranch in Texas. Fine in publisher's cloth, in.....

Price: $200.00

[Label - Tiger Brand Lard]; Chamberlain, Roe & Co

Diamond-shaped Lard Label.

New York: Chamberlain, Roe & Co., [late 19th century]. 16 x 27 cm label. Printed in red and black. A diamond shaped label for 19th century New York Lard Refiners and Provision Dealers, Chamberlain, Roe & Co. Leaf lard is the highest grade of lard, prepared here “expressly for family use”, leaf lard has minimal pork flavor and is ideal for its use in baked goods. Fine.

Price: $90.00

Lapaire, Hugues

La Cuisine Berrichonne, suivi de Chansons a Boire, Ornaments de Emile Popineau.

Paris: Chez Helleu et Sergent, 1925. Small octavo, 108, [2] pages. FIRST EDITION. A simple and lovely book devoted to the cuisine of Berry. The recipe list is not long, but includes 'boeuf au cornichons,' 'veau en etuvee,' 'rognons de moutons a la mode de Bourges,' and 'truffiat ou galette aux pommes de terre'. With a section on the wines of the region, and a collection of local drinking songs.....

Price: $500.00

Lindgren, Don & Mark Germer

UnXld: American Cookbooks of Community & Place. Volume 1, Alabama – District of Columbia.

Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....

Price: $50.00

[Mother Goose – Maine Creamery Co. (Providence, R.I.)]

Ice Cream Rhymes of Mother Goose.

Providence, R.I. Maine Creamery Co. Ice Cream, [circa 1915]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.7 x 8 cm.), [12] pages, including wrappers. Illustrated throughout, in four-color spot printing on newsprint. An advertising pamphlet with popular nursery rhymes rewritten to promote ice cream. Evidently published for hire by various ice cream producers, which including this one, the Maine Creamery Co., of Providence, R.I. There are institutional holdings of this book issued by.....

Price: $90.00

Troisgros, Jean & Pierre; Roberta Wolfe Smoler (translator)

The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean & Pierre Troisgros [cover title: The New French Cooking...]

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1978]. Octavo (24 x 17 cm.), 254 pages. Illustrated with color photographs by Didier Blanchat. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Issued the previous year in French by Robert Laffont. Recipient of the F&W Gold Medal. The first cookbook from the giants of nouvelle cuisine, owner's of their eponymous restaurant in Roanne, and one time students of the great Fernand Point. Some light age-toning to.....

Price: $75.00

Webster, Mrs. A.L

The Improved Housewife. Or Book of Receipts: with Engravings for Marketing and Carving... Twentieth Edition, revised : with supplement and perpetual calendar.

Hartford: Ira Webster, 1854. Octavo, xi, 12-236 pages. Frontispiece, plus folding, hand-colored plate. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text. First edition, likely 14th or 15th printing, although styled the Twentieth Edition on title page. "Mrs. Webster was at best, what one would call a good plain cook, and yet she too reflects some of the virtues of her time", writes Karen Hess, who stops to point out that up to.....

Price: $250.00